Author Archives: drlidbom

AT&T Microcell funness.

Posted on March 3, 2010 by drlidbom

Just a head’s up…if you’re working with one of the new AT&T Microcells behind a firewall, you need to enable outbound ports 500 and 4500 UDP.

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Simple is lovely

Posted on October 19, 2009 by drlidbom

Needed to quickly get a new shortcut out to a group of terminal server users on their desktops and start menus.  Nothing particularly complicated about the script, but it did the job: for /f “tokens=*” %a in (‘dir C:\Docume~1\ /b … Continue reading →

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Tethering a Blackberry with OSX 10.5.6

Posted on May 11, 2009 by drlidbom

Evidently there are some pieces of Bluetooth that get changed with the Leopard 10.5.6 update.  One of those appears to break tethering to Blackberries.  If you have everything “correct” based on the number of other tutorials out there, but you … Continue reading →

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Cmd-Tab stops working in OSX

Posted on May 8, 2009 by drlidbom

If your Command-Tab shortcut stops working in OSX, try the following: Start a terminal and run sudo killall Dock If it still doesn’t work, try killing ScreenSaverEventAgent (probably easiest for a novice from the Activity Monitor)

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ugh.

Posted on April 11, 2009 by drlidbom

That’s what I’ve felt like mostly for the past 4 days.  There have been moments of “ahh” (very very few, mostly following some sort of very cold moisture hitting my throat), many “unnnnhnnnnnnnnn”‘s, some “blechhhh”‘s and even more times where … Continue reading →

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Chemistry at work

Posted on April 1, 2009 by drlidbom

We (the geeks in the office) have made a few attempts at getting a fishtank to work here.  Not a desktop one, but a 100 gallon one.  It worked great for a while, then something happened with the cover we … Continue reading →

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Reddit minus zealots

Posted on March 30, 2009 by drlidbom

I subscribe to around 30 (give or take) RSS feeds.  Some of them low volume (comments on my site) and some of them ridiculous (reddit’s what’s new feed).  I do get interesting stuff from reddit, but I wanted a way … Continue reading →

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Blackberry Enterprise Server Activation hangs at “Activating email@domain.com…”

Posted on March 25, 2009 by drlidbom

When trying to activate a new Blackberry device on a BES Server, occasionally the device will hang immediately after beginning synchronization.  I have read many troubleshooting steps to this, but the one that worked for me was to obtain the … Continue reading →

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Deleting files in a text file (OSX)

Posted on March 25, 2009 by drlidbom

Someone had a list of absolute paths of files they needed to delete. I sent them this tiny script to help them out: sed ‘s/\ /\\ /g’ filelist.txt | xargs rm Explanation: Take filelist.txt, replace all the spaces with backslash … Continue reading →

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Resuscitating the blog?

Posted on March 24, 2009 by drlidbom

In all the web2.0/social networking giddiness, I’ve fallen into the habit of many others </blameshifting> I update twitter/facebook occasionally, I use delicious religiously and I don’t post as many pictures from my phone as I would like. Sarah does a … Continue reading →

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